KEN GLASSON CHARGED WITH CRIMINAL SEXUAL CONDUCT …
Former congressional candidate, mayoral aspirant and Mount Pleasant, S.C. town councilman Ken Glasson was arrested just after midnight on Friday morning and charged with third degree criminal sexual conduct.
The charge stems from an alleged incident at a beach house on Seabrook Island – details of which were first reported here on FITSNews. Follow-up reports revealed that Glasson was being investigated based on allegations of underage drinking and “inappropriate sexual activity” that allegedly took place during a recent spring break beach trip that he and another divorced father “chaperoned” for students at Wando High School.
News of Glasson’s arrest was first reported by WCIV TV-4 (ABC – Charleston, S.C.).
According to the station he was booked at the Sheriff Al Cannon detention center early Friday morning and will be appear before a judge at 10:00 a.m. EDT Friday to answer to the charge against him.
According to a detective’s affidavit submitted alongside the warrant for Glasson’s arrest, the ex-politician “did willfully, unlawfully and feloniously commit a sexual battery against the victim while she was mentally incapacitated, to wit: cunnilingus.”
“The victim stated that she does not recall how she got into the defendant’s bedroom but while in that room the victim recalls the defendant removing her clothes and laying her down on the bed,” the affidavit alleged. “The victim reported that she could feel the defendant simulating her female genitals with his tongue and lips. She stated that she was unable to move or tell the defendant to stop because she was mentally incapacitated from consuming copious amounts of alcohol that day.”
The victim is a female who was over the age of eighteen at the time of the incident, however the involvement of alcohol in connection with the incident obviously raises red flags.
Here’s the affidavit …
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(Via: Charleston County Sheriff’s Department)
Glasson, 53, is a retired U.S. Marine colonel. He ran for the Palmetto State’s first congressional district seat back in 2010 but finished last in a nine-candidate field. In 2013, he ran unsuccessfully for mayor of Mount Pleasant and two years ago he lost his seat on town council.
Since his defeat, Glasson had been working with a group called “Mount Pleasant United” in the hopes of winning back his seat through the creation of single-member districts in the town.
We’ll have more on that group and some of its curious political connections soon …
In the meantime, WCIV also reported that Glasson’s fellow “chaperone” at this beach house gathering was Kelly Hollowell – a 51-year-old Mount Pleasant man who was arrested in April 2014 on the charge of contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
The charge Glasson is now facing is much more serious. In fact if convicted, he could face up to a decade behind bars.
South Carolina’s code of laws (§ 16-3-654) defines third-degree criminal sexual conduct as the use of “force or coercion to accomplish sexual battery in the absence of aggravating circumstances.”
An individual can also be charged under the law if “the victim is mentally defective, mentally incapacitated, or physically helpless and aggravated force or aggravated coercion was not used to accomplish sexual battery.”
As with anyone charged with any offense against the law, Glasson is entitled to due process and is considered innocent until proven guilty.
This website has been provided with extensive information about this incident – as well as multiple narratives to explain what may have happened.
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